A Fuzzy Memory

I really love classic cartoons. Even though I'm only 31, I grew up watching a lot of older stuff, especially Looney Toons and Scooby Doo. But one thing in particular I love, that somehow isn't super well known despite being written by Chuck Jones and starring Judy Garland & Robert Goulet, is a tiny minimalistic animated feature from 1962 titled "Gay Purr-ee". It occasionally played on Cartoon Networks Cartoon Theatre (which, now that I've mentioned it, I should do a post on at some point I suppose) but I know I saw it long before that, I just can't really remember where or when . But hey, that's why the blog is called what it's called, right? Seriously though, some of these things - specifically the ones where I can't pinpoint its introduction into my life - almost seem like they've been a part of my life since I was born and given how old this movie is that could theoretically be the case for once. Either way, it's an absolutely beauti...

Back in the early 2000s, Cartoon Network went through an extremely strange time period airing very artsy almost surreal cartoons long before stuff the likes of Adventure Time made it normalized. Among these shows was one such cartoon titled "Whatever Happened To Robot Jones?", whose title became thusly - and I feel somewhat intentionally - prophetic, because now people often ask it themselves. I always took the title to be a sort of joke on the question people ask long after they've graduated school and think back to their youthful days, saying, "Gee, I wonder whatever happened to Caleb Browning?" But as it turns out - and as I said I think the creator did this rather, brilliantly, intentionally so the show would become even funnier with age based purely off the title alone - now it has a somewhat entirely different meaning. I loved this weird artsy quirky period of Cartoon Network which aired a lot of shows I'll likely be covering on this blog because nobod...

I have an interesting history with the horror genre as a whole. I can remember being very little and being somewhat put off by the concept of horror movies, but never really being scared by them either. But, as I got a little older, I definitely became much more interested in horror and began seeking it out in whatever medium I could find. I played a lot of Silent Hill games as a kid, and really liked stuff like Courage the Cowardly Dog on Cartoon Network. That all being said, and while I think I turned out fairly okay as an adult, it's highly likely that I did see certain things before I was probably supposed to, and one of those things was horror movies. I watched the original IT adaptation on the Scifi channel eons before I even knew what IT or Stephen King was, and I wound up somehow convincing my parents, likely because I was extremely mature for my age, to let me rent horror movies that I probably shouldn't have been allowed to rent. Nothing insidiously gruesome, mind you...